Watashi wa Succubus to Kiss wo Shita
I Have Kissed Succubus

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Warning: Contains Spoilers
Story: 6
Watashi wa Succubus to Kiss wo Shita follows Yukiko Ootsu who is a succubus who had decided to live her life as a normal human being to avoid being potentially dragged into an abnormal lifestyle due to herself being a succubus. The story begins when a transfer student named Konomi Nirasaka joins Yukiko’s class who reveals herself as a succubus to Yukiko resulting in Yukiko doing the same and from there, Yukiko starts learning to live her life as a succubus. The concept of the story is solid. You have a succubus who has lived a majority of her life as a ... human and has yet to really experience living a life as a succubus which is to say that succubi need to take life energy in order to survive. Now, she steadily learns how to traverse life as a succubus. The story thoroughly explores each of the characters’ lives, their relationships with each other, their past, as well as their thoughts, feelings, and actions towards succubi. And it all columates into an ending where everyone is pretty much in a happy or at least satisfied state. I have no real issue with the story, but I have some issues with how the “antagonist” of the story is followed through with. Nozomi Ashiyama is a big driving force for the plot in the later half of the manga due to her past with Konomi, her despising succubi, and her manipulative and psychotic nature. I have no real issues about her character herself, but I just feel like she wasn’t well represented in the story with her being the “antagonist.” We are shown her nasty, dark side, but we don’t really see her normal life and we don’t explore enough of her inner thoughts. And at the end of the story, due to her past with Konomi, Konomi sort of takes the bullet for the rest of the characters as she is the one who deals with the Nozomi by keeping her busy (succubus style). And we are pretty much left off at that point. The story is good, but I do wish we were able to explore more of the Nozomi as well as see a more detailed or at least drawn out ending involving her with Konomi.
Characters: 7
I think that the characters were all really well made, and I believe that their development throughout the story was also very well done. Yukiko was very well written and her character mirrored what she was introduced to us as perfectly: a succubus who has chosen to live her life as a human, basically an inexperienced succubus. Her development, with her being the protagonist, is great. She goes from an awkward, shy individual to being a more outgoing and more expressive person as she learns to live as a succubus and as she develops her romantic relationship with her closest friend and partner, Fuu Yanigahara. Fuu also develops from being a held-back, possessive individual to being a more forgiving one when it comes to her relationship with Yukiko. Yukiko's little sister, Aki, is also well represented as we are shown much of her thoughts as well as being shown many aspects of her relationship with her partner, Mirino. Konomi is also a very well drawn out character with her being one of the larger driving factors for the plot in the story with her influencing Yukiko to be more of a succubus as well as her past with Nozomi. Nozomi was a very intriguing character. Her psychotic personality was a big 360 from the initial mood of the manga, and while much of her character is shown, her being introduced so late in the manga resulted in her not being that thoroughly explored which is my only gripe when it comes to characters.
Art: 7
The art is great. Everything from the background to the characters are very well done. And the kissing and licking scenes are very unique when it comes to how they are drawn. There is a lot of effort and detail being put towards illustrating the kissing scenes, especially when it comes to the massive amount of saliva being passed around. It’s not off-putting, but it is pretty unique.
Overall: ~7
I enjoyed reading this. I give it a score of 6, leaning more towards being a 7. Around something like a 6.7/10 or something like that. The story is good, the characters themselves are very good, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this manga. It’s not the most impressive thing I’ve read, but I found it satisfying and I believe that most people would also agree. Nozomi’s character and her presence in the story could’ve been more well done, but overall, this manga is good.

This was... something.

It's mainly a story of misunderstandings and problems arising from no communication, constant lying, and deception. Every step of the way it's pretty hard to really like or even understand any of the characters. It's not uncommon in this genre to have things causing misunderstandings, but it's so frequent and back and forth from multiple characters that it outright devalues the worth of any of the relationships.

By the end you're left with a couple of loose ends, and the ones that get tied up just don't ... feel good. It doesn't feel genuine, nor does it feel like the characters really learned why some of their actions were terrible. One of the character has a solid reason for being shitty but it never really resolves those issues. It leaves them in their current state and never comes back.

Personally i'd recommend just looking for anything else. The drama feels useless a lot of the times and it doesn't even lead to anything satisfying by the end. It's just a messy story in general.